I hope people have learned a valuable lesson about humans and the nature of the malignant, festering evil that lies at the heart of all societies, but I think what they learned was that the Nazis are "back."

"Where did all these Nazis come from?" I keep hearing people unironically ask.

"People are fundamentally good" and "Nazis are fucking everywhere" are not really complimentary. You actually can hold both of those beliefs at the same time logically, but most people aren't willing to modify "People are fundamentally good" to "People are fundamentally good, for the most part, but there are also a shitload of Nazis or their genocidal equivalent at all times."

I mean, I don't even believe in the first part. People aren't fundamentally fucking anything. But a lot of people have been taught that they are.

well i mean between the fact that all it does is get lots and lots of eyes on obvious racism from no-follower accounts, spreading visibility, and the fact that it came out it was run by disgraced twitter sex pest Lana Del Raytheon, thought maybe folks woulda dropped it.

Oh okay, like that. I really vaguely recall that for a while there was a theory that it was some kind of collective or dumping ground, but that makes sense too. I don't recall ever paying much attention to LDR, so this is all stuff that was way off my radar.